CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

Buy more VPN servers? Making the Technology Transition to SASE SD-WAN is a sophisticated technology, but its meant for meeting the challenges of yesterday not to tomorrow. For more information about selecting SASE and the right partner for WAN transformation, watch the on-demand webinar — The Dark side of SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2023

Historically, virtual private networks (VPNs) were the only available solution, and this familiarity has driven many organizations to expand their existing VPN infrastructure as the need for secure remote access has grown. While VPNs can protect against eavesdroppers, thats about all that they can do.

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CATO Networks

MAY 12, 2020

Current solutions, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) servers, provide connectivity for some users, some of the time. But VPN servers cant support all the users, all the time which is exactly whats needed to continue your business during a global crisis. And 28% reported a growth of at least 200%.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2020

It is speculated that the attack on Travelex became possible because the company had failed to patch vulnerable VPN servers. The Cato Approach Here at Cato Networks, we have developed a solution to the security problem of unpatched VPN servers. We also address the shortcomings of VPNs.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Why remote access should be a collaboration between network & security | Whitepaper Where Legacy Secure Remote Access Falls Short With a growing percentage of corporate workforces working on remote or hybrid schedules, a secure remote access VPN is essential. In many cases, companies are reliant on VPNs to provide this capability.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2020

At the same time this unprecedented shift to remote work is occurring, businesses are realizing traditional enterprise remote access solutions, like Internet-based VPN, often arent capable of addressing all the needs of large-scale work from home. The client/server architecture of point solutions simply isnt scalable.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies looking to provide secure remote access to their off-site employees have largely chosen to expand their existing virtual private network (VPN) deployments. VPNs are ill-suited to meeting modern business needs and will only become less so in the future. Moving Beyond the VPN A remote access VPN is a thing of the past.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 28, 2022

There is a common clich that is often thrown around during SASE vendor discussions you are comparing apples to oranges. So, let us take a look at what this expression means, and why we should compare apples and oranges when evaluating SASE solutions. The post Evaluating SASE Vendors?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies that already offered VPN services to a small group of remote workers scurried to extend those capabilities to the much larger workforce sequestering at home. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one. Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. Lets have a look at each approach.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2024

If youre an administrator running Ivanti VPN (Connect Secure and Policy Secure) appliances in your network, then the past two months have likely made you wish you weren’t. In a relatively short timeframe bad news kept piling up for Ivanti Connect Secure VPN customers, starting on Jan. CVE-2024-21888: Privilege Escalation (CVSS 8.8)

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Weve all heard of AV and VPN, but there are many more cybersecurity-related acronyms and abbreviations that are worth taking note of. SASE Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud-based solution that converges network and security functionalities. SASE solutions use DPI to support its integrated security functions.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

The widespread adoption of Gartner’s secure access service edge (SASE) architecture all but debunked that notion, and today it’s widely accepted that networking and security must come together. But for those vendors rushing to join SASE, solution integration has become the answer. The post SASE Convergence or Integration?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SASE can help ease this pressure. SASE provides reliable global connectivity with optimized network performance , 99.999% uptime and a self-healing architecture that ensures employees can focus on advancing the business, instead of tuning and troubleshooting network performance.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 31, 2020

VPN Vulnerabilities Jeopardize Remote Access Of course, some patches are more important than others. Last year CERT issued a warning about security vulnerabilities in various VPN devices that were storing session cookies improperly. If we eliminate the appliance architecture, we can eliminate the overhead and risk of patches.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 25, 2021

It was a massive undertaking that saw 2,376 participants from across the globe provide detailed insights into how their organizations responded to the COVID-19 crisis, their plans for next year, and what they think about secure access service edge (SASE). According to respondents SASE. Isnt it time you considered SASE?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 14, 2022

At first, IT teams tried to deal with the new situation by stacking up legacy VPN servers. Solution #1: ZTNA and SASE ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) decouple network and security capabilities from physical appliances. This extension is required to enable a remote workforce.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The infrastructure needed to support these remote users, virtual private network (VPN) solutions, was built for the brave few and not for the masses. During the first wave of COVID-19, IT had to throw money and hardware at the problem, stacking up legacy VPN servers all over the world to catch up with the demand.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

This blog post breaks down the considerations and requirements of strategic change, while comparing two courses of action – transforming early or waiting for the last minute – and proposes a plan for gradual adoption of SASE. This begs the question, how can IT teams adopt SASE without disrupting the business?

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 16, 2024

(Note: A high-level case study of Hunters International was included in our recently published Q3 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report.) Q3 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report | Get the report Cato Networks offers a dynamic and proactive defense with the Cato SASE Cloud Platform by blocking modern ransomware attacks throughout the attack chain.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Appliance-based SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN provided an alternative to MPLS, but there were tradeoffs. The converged nature of Catos Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model makes cloud connectivity and mobile support possible without inefficient backhauling. They too faced the form factor problem.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative. Cato PoPs help enterprises address this issue by proxying TCP connections to make clients and servers think they are closer together and allow for larger TCP windows. The solution?

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